{"id":46724,"date":"2018-09-11T23:06:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/326258"},"modified":"2018-09-11T23:06:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T23:06:00","slug":"niantic-touts-35-percent-growth-in-active-players-for-pokemon-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/09\/11\/niantic-touts-35-percent-growth-in-active-players-for-pokemon-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Niantic touts 35 percent growth in active players for Pokemon Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief:<\/strong> Since <em>Pokemon Go&#8217;s<\/em> explosive launch, its playerbase has shot up and down on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/279767\/Pokemon_Go_is_losing_millions_of_users_still_has_millions_more.php\">a rollercoaster ride<\/a> that can only be expected when a game has become one of the world&#8217;s most popular MMORPGs. But <a href=\"https:\/\/nianticlabs.com\/blog\/summer2018recap\/\">in a company blog post today<\/a>, Niantic has confirmed that its number of total active players has once again been ticking upward, touting a 35 percent growth since May of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The blog post, which also takes time to <a href=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/articles\/four-ways-cities-can-use-augmented-reality-games-to-bolster-civic-engagement\">discuss the company&#8217;s partnership with the Knight Foundation,<\/a> slipped in this statistic while discussing how players have been coming together for the last few months. In June, Niantic released <em>Pokemon Go&#8217;s <\/em>social update, which implemented a full friend system and gave players the ability to send gifts to their friends.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These new features, along with a slew of community and company-organized events, appear to be the driving factor behind the new growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief: Since Pokemon Go&#8217;s explosive launch, its playerbase has shot up and down on\u00a0a rollercoaster ride that can only be expected when a game has become one of the world&#8217;s most popular MMORPGs. But in a company blog post today, Niantic has confirmed that its number of total active players has once again been ticking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}